Amsterdam’s Foam Photography Museum announced this week that Alexander Gronsky has won their Paul Huf Award for 2010. I’ve heard his name before but this is the first time that I’ve really seen his work. Its spectacular.
Link: Alexander Gronsky wins Foam Paul Huf Award 2010 | dvafoto
Central to LUCEO’s mission is our belief in the importance of long-term projects. We also understand that developing photographers need support. To advance both of these causes, LUCEO has created the Luceo Student Project Award, which will be disbursed annually to a talented student photographer in support of a significant and developing body of work.
This year’s recipient will receive $1,000 along with mentorship for the project from one Luceo member. Finalists will be announced in late May. A select panel will judge from the ten finalists and the winner will be announced in June.
The deadline for receipt of your application is 11:59pm EST May 15, 2010.
Last year the Veolia Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition dealt with controversy when the winning photographer was stripped of his award for
a new rule bans entries from cameras with less than 10 megapixels:
travel photographer
Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2010/03/8th-annual-smithsonian-photo-contest.html
The 8th Annual Smithsonian Photo Contest is scheduled to begin on March 1, 2010. Contestants can enter photographs in five categories—Altered Images, Americana, The Natural World, People and Travel—that represent subjects of special interest to the magazine. Fifty finalists will be selected, ten for each of the five categories.
The manipulation of digital imagery has — briefly — claimed another important victim: the World Press Photo Contest.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/behind-35/
The manipulation of digital imagery has — briefly — claimed another important victim: the World Press Photo Contest.
World Press Photo has disqualified photographer Stepan Rudik for altering his images “beyond the boundary of what is acceptable practice
Link: British Journal of Photography – World Press Photo disqualifies photographer [updated @ 3.50pm]
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PDN is seeking emerging fine-art photographers for The Curator, an annual competition that will culminate in a group show in New York City. Six winners will exhibit their work in a summer show with an opening reception. Their work will also be published i
via PDN Curator Photo Contest: http://pdncuratorawards.com/
One artist in each category will be awarded participation in an exclusive gallery show held in New York, New York during the summer of 2010. In addition, the selected artists will be featured in a print gallery in PDN’s June issue – which has an additional print distribution to photography industry creatives – and their images will also be reproduced in a PDN Web gallery
Photographer Tomas van Houtryve has won POYi’s Photographer of the Year award in the freelance/agency category. His portfolio included several critical essays about the social and political effects of entrenched communist regimes in Moldova, Cuba and China. The second place award went to Getty staff photographer Paula Bronstein, while Marcus Bleasdale, a member of VII, won third place.
Link: Van Houtryve Wins POYi’s Freelance Photographer of the Year Award
NPPA member Louie Palu is the winner of the 2010 Alexia Foundation Grant for professionals, and NPPA member Juliette Lynch, a senior photojournalism major at Syracuse University, is the student winner, the Alexia Foundation announced.
The WHNPA is proud to announce our annual contest is open to students from across the world to compete for the honor of WHNPA Student Photographer of the Year. The contest opens on February 20, 2010 and will accept entries until 11:59 p.m. EST on March 17, 2010. Download a PDF of complete contest rules and guidelines below.
Photographer Paul Hansen, a staff photographer with the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, has won newspaper photographer of the year in the 67th annual Picture of the Year International competition at the Missouri School of Journalism. Second place went to Mads Nissen of Denmark, a staff photographer at the Danish daily Berlingske Tidende. Denver Post staff photographer Craig Walker took third place. The winning portfolios were announced over the weekend.
Link: Paul Hansen of Sweden Wins POYi Newspaper Photographer of the Year
A George Polk Award was given to an anonymous man for a video of the violent death of Neda Agha-Soltan, an Iranian woman who became a symbol of the opposition movement in June.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/business/media/22polk.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Last week, a George Polk Award was given for an image of the violent death of an Iranian woman during protests last year. The man who first uploaded the video is anonymous, as are the man who captured the footage on a camera phone and the doctor who sent the video clip by e-mail with the message “please let the world know.” The uploader learned only last week that he had played a role in one of the highest honors in journalism, by reading an article about it on the Internet.
It is a bit nerve-wracking being a POYi judge. Contests are very emotional for members of the photojournalism community and being asked to determine the best images from a year puts one in the cent…
via shooting from the hip: http://strazz.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/in-or-out/
It is a bit nerve-wracking being a POYi judge.
Contests are very emotional for members of the photojournalism community and being asked to determine the best images from a year puts one in the center of the storm.
Okay, I have accepted the finality of the matter. I failed to place in any of the categories entered in the annual POYi (Pictures of the Year International) competition. This is the point where I could vent my frustrations against the judges and claim the tired excuses that “only the overseas stuff ever wins,” or the “what the???” but I’m going to keep my head up high and know that in my own little world of photojournalism, I had a good year, and I’m proud of the photographs that I’ve had the wonderful opportunity to bring you, our readers, everyday.
Link: Failed to place in POYi? Share your grief here. | PICTURES | STLtoday
Watch Live Webcasting of the Judging of the 67th annual photojournalism competition.
The international jury of the 53rd annual World Press Photo Contest has selected a photo by the Italian photographer Pietro Masturzo as the World Press Photo of the Year 2009. The picture depicts women shouting in protest from a rooftop in Tehran, on June 24, 2009. The winning photograph is part of a story depicting the nights following the contested presidential elections in Iran, when people shouted their dissent from roofs and balconies, after daytime protests in the streets. The story as a whole was awarded first prize in the category People in the News.
If you like blood, you will love the new crop of World Press Awards winners. There is a lot of it, in full details and in brilliant colors. Hopefully for you, you will not look at the galleries just after eating, the results might not get along with your stomach.
Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » There will be blood
